From the Ruins of Empire
Subtitle: the intellectuals who remade Asia
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780374249595
Description: Provides an overview of the great thinkers and philosophical leaders from across Asia who helped change and shape the modern continent, including Tagore and Gandhi in India, Liang Qichao in China and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim in the Ottoman Empire.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Chapter one : Asia subordinated.; title: Egypt : 'the beginning of a series of great misfortunes'; title: The slow battering of India and China; title: The new global hierarchy; title: Chapter two : The strange odyssey of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani.; title: An insignificant man in rough garments; title: The 'sick man' of Europe and his dangerous self-therapy; title: Egypt : the polemicist emerges; title: Beyond self-strengthening : the origins of pan-Islamism and nationalism; title: The European interlude; title: Apotheosis in Persia; title: In a golden cage : al-Afghani's last days in Istanbul; title: The long aftermath; title: Chapter three : Liang Qichao's China and the fate of Asia.; title: The enviable but inimitable rise of Japan; title: The first impulses of reform; title: Japan and the perils of exile; title: The Boxer Rising : more lessons from defeat; title: Pan-Asianism : the pleasures of cosmopolitanism; title: Liang and democracy in America; title: The temptations of autocracy and revolution; title: Chapter four : 1919, 'changing the history of the world'.; title: The United States and its promises of self-determination; title: Liberal internationalism or liberal imperialism?; title: Making the world unsafe for democracy; title: The decline of the West?; title: Chapter five : Rabindranath Tagore in East Asia, the man from the lost country.; title: Chapter six : Asia remade.; title: The sting in the tail : pan-Asianism and military decolonization; title: Intellectual decolonization : the rise of neo-traditionalists; title: The triumphs of the nation-state : Turkey, the sick man, revives; title: 'The Chinese people have stood up'; title: The rise of the 'rest'; title: Epilogue : An ambiguous revenge; title: Bibliographic essay